![]() ![]() He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads.ĭescribed by Professor Sir John Plumb as " a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as " a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship. The House of Medici picks up where Barbara Tuchmans Hibbert delves into the lives of the Medici family, whose legacy of increasing self-indulgence and sexual dalliance eventually led to. ![]() Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 - 21 December 2008) was an English writer, historian and biographer. Described by Professor Sir John Plumb as " a writer of the highest ability and in the New Statesman as " a pearl of biographers," he established himself as a leading popular historian/biographer whose works reflected meticulous scholarship. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. He is an often overlooked figure who (he was a bastard) rose to prominence somewhat unexpected but became the most important scion of his house in the Medici efforts to secure official status within Italy and the Empire, marrying the (bastard) daughter of Charles V himself and enjoying close proximity to the Habsburg emperor. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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